Re: Arabic 'sura' (?)-- a question

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 08:12:48 -0600 William Annis <annis@...>
writes:
>  >       Is this related to all those words in Hebrew that have a
> silent /h/ at
>  >the end of them?  Wow!
>         Of course.  Also, think about the Hebrew feminine plural,
> '-ot'.  Arabic and Hebrew are kissing cousins, which quite
> surprised
> an Orthodox Jewish co-worker of mine.  I forget how it came up, but
> I went through "my king, your king, etc." in Arabic, but in Hebrew
> letters.  He was amazed.
-

I (who also happens to be an Orthodox Jew) always have spelling mistakes
on my Arabic tests with the 'taa marbuuta'.  I keep on spelling it the
sensible Hebrew way - with a haa-shape when it's silent, and a taa-shape
when it's pronounced /t/!  :-)
Hebrew is *so* much simpler than Arabic!  :-P


-Stephen (Steg)
a.k.a. /D'abi: Gaza:l/ (i wish)